Larry Yudelson

Editorial director of Ben Yehuda Press, an independent publisher of Jewish books. Views expressed are my own. @babka.social

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This may be my new pinned tweet.

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Remaining politically unbiased requires staying neutral on matters like evidence, relevant past behavior, clear patterns, obvious lies, and observable truth.

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Quite the fun read.

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The small Catskills town of Red River is rocked when the dynamic young heir to the local rabbinic dynasty is found murdered in the synagogue his family split from. It is up to his childhood best friend, now the local sheriff, to find his killer and keep the town from boiling over

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This is a terrifying story about a state government persecuting followers of a faith. Here in the USA. I would hope Jewish groups are disgusted and making that clear with Greg Abbott and the Texas government. Don’t think these instruments won’t be wielded against Jewish worship.

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Put Your Money Where Your Soul Is, Jewish Wisdom to Transform Your Investments for Good
by Rabbi Jacob Siegel

A must-read to people who would like to invest more ethically.

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#WorldEnvironmentDay

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Salute him.

Bob Dylan's birthday, May 24.

Here he is blowing out his candles in Paris, 1966. Portrait by Barry Feinstein.

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Happy 85th birthday to the legendary Bob Dylan.

His songs like “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “The Times They Are A-Changin’” became civil rights anthems.

In 2016, he received the Nobel Prize for Literature for his innovations in songwriting.

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The most intense surge of climate alarm in recent history — school strikes and XR, Green New Deal and “twelve years to save the world” — followed not from science involving RCP8.5 but the UN’s Special Report on 1.5 Degrees. This was not a worst case scenario report but…

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On Kindle now, coming soon to all the other ebook platforms.

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As the Story Goes: Funny, Strange, and Serious Stories of Yiddishland’s Jews (Yiddish Rediscoveries) is now available as an ebook!

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"The Five Books of Limericks, A chapter-by-chapter retelling of the Torah" by Rhonda Rosenheck

#NationalLimerickDay #Poetry

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Happy Mother's Day! Celebrate the meaning of family by reading "With an Outstretched Arm, A memoir of love and loss, family and faith" by B. J. Yudelson

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Today is #NationalDayofPrayer. Celebrate with a copy of "Blessed Are You, Wondrous Universe: A Siddur for Seekers, Non-theistic Jewish prayers" by Herbert J. Levine

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In Noah’s Ark

The animals come male and female
Noah’s whole family comes

it is not enough to save all the creatures
to save the world

you must save togetherness
you must save love
or at least the possibility of love.

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Bits and Pieces, A Roaming by Edward Pomerantz

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#poetry #nationalpoetrymonth

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Author Alex Sinclair of "Loving the Real Israel" was arrested in Israel for wearing a kippah embroidered with an Israeli and a Palestinian flag. The police then cut up the religious head covering — in a rare case that has drawn national attention.

https://t.co/ANgYpbqlGc

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Sometimes it's these "small" things ("small" in the sense that no was killed or physically hurt) that paint such a bleak and dismal picture of Israel at 78.

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This is my teacher and former professor at @JTSVoice , Alex Sinclair

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Poetry Month Sale: Buy any two poetry books, get the third free!

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Happy Earth Day!

Put Your Money Where Your Soul Is, Jewish Wisdom to Transform Your Investments for Good by Rabbi Jacob Siegel

The book has sections on Climate Change and Centering Radical Justice

https://t.co/MaT6p32XJk

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Today is Israel Independence Day

Loving the Real Israel, An educational agenda for liberal Zionism by Alex Sinclair from the writings of Jewish philosophers, educational theorists and Bible scholars to posit four principles for liberal Zionist engagement

https://t.co/csLuCSEk19

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Today at 3pm (ET) Joelle Maxx Milman will read from her debut poetry collection “Repartings, Poems of Poems of Haftara”

Use this link to join the event in Google Meet:
https://t.co/NLVZNvcPdp

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Today in 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to journey into outer space.

Alternate history asks and tries to answer the unanswerable.
"Other Covenants, Alternate Histories of the Jewish People" by Andrea D. Lobel & Mark Shainblum

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